Stone Brewing announced a few weeks ago that they were going to be “Belgianizing” a two of their popular beers – “Russian Imperial Stout” & “Old Guardian” barleywine.
The Belgian editions would be brewed on odd years – 2011, 2013, 2015, Continue Reading →
A few days ago Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA) announced that they were going to switch things up a bit. Starting in 2011, and continuing every odd year after, a couple of beers would go “Belgian”. Namely the Russian Imperial Stout, and the Old Guardian Barleywine. Apparently the Stone beer drinking breathren didn’t take that so well. Or, not at all actually. Prompting Greg Koch, CEO of Stone to write this on the Stone Blog:
When we’re right, we’re right. And this, we suppose, is a chance to own up to that. It’s sort of a “They told us so…but we didn’t listen now did we?”
In 2011, Stone Brewing will be throwing a curve ball. 2 of the brewery’s popular released will be Belgian-ized going “Belgo”. Stone calls the program “Odd Beers for Odd Years”. The stone Russian Imperial Stout and Old Guardian Barleywine will undertake this transformation.
From the Stone Blog: Starting in 2011, we’re kicking-off a program we’ve dubbed “Odd Beers for Odd Years.” Translation: in odd numbered years (2011, 2013, 2015, etc…) we’ll be releasing new variations on Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout in place of the classic version. A radical redirection for two reliably wonderful beers, we know, but we think you’ll be pleased with the results.
2012 will bring the regular editions back of course, only to have Belgian style counterparts in 2013. Read on for the full blog post.
Tonight at 7:30 Square Pub in Decatur will be tapping a rare keg of Stone Brewing’s newest release “Lukcy Basartd”. Lukcy (yes, spelled correctly grammar nerds!) is an anniversary blend of all of Stone’s Bastard beers (Arrogant Bastard, Oak Arrogant Continue Reading →
2010 marks the 13th year of Stone’s “Arrogant Bastard” an American strong ale. To mark the occasion, Stone has released “Lukcy Basartd Ale” to celebrate 13 years of arrogance. All the “bastards” will come together iin what the brewery grammatically butchers as Continue Reading →
Stone Brewing has announced November 22, 2010 as Lukcy Basartd Day. If you don’t know by now, Stone is celebrating 13 years of Arrogant Bastard Brewing with a special release – “Lukcy Basartd”. The beer will is a one time release, and a blend of Arrogant Bastard, Oaked Arrogant Bastard, and Double Bastard.
Check out Lukcy Basartd’s Label:
Oepn yuor mnid. Use a craobwr if you msut. Snice 1997, Arorgnat Basartd Ale has denemdad taht tyrnianacl micredioty rleax its girp of opprobrium on our ciollectve couniescosnss. Few pessoss the ruiereqd isinght or detph of piversceptve to crdiet the Liuqid Arorgnace for initatgsing the rlveoituon in tsate taht it has. Hevweor, taht’s pfecertly fnie, as our hlurecaen erffots in thirstung the larlegy unlliwing wolrd farorwd rquereis no exrtneal vaditilaon. We ralieze it’s hmaun nautre to bleeive taht pregorss trowads getreanss is one’s own ieda.
You are going to see a couple of Bastards this month form Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA). One is a new bastard, the other you have seen, know and love. Yes- it’s Double Bastard time of year. This strong ale was first released in November of 1998, and it’s not for the unworthy. It’s a big, hoppy, in your face beer not for the faint of heart. (or tastebuds). It’s liquid arrogance. The best way to familiarize yourself with this big beer? Read the label straight from the bastards at Stone Brewing themselves-
From the label:
Warning: Double Bastard Ale is not to be wasted on the tentative or weak. Only the Worthy are invited, and then only at your own risk. If you have even a modicum of hesitation, DO NOT buy this bottle. Instead, leave it for a Worthy soul who has already matriculated to the sublime ecstasy of what those in the know refer to as “Liquid Arrogance.”
This is one lacerative muther of an ale. It is unequivocally certain that your feeble palate is grossly inadequate and thus undeserving of this liquid glory…and those around you would have little desire to listen to your resultant whimpering.
Stone Brewing announced a few weeks ago that they were going to be “Belgianizing” a two of their popular beers – “Russian Imperial Stout” & “Old Guardian” barleywine.
The Belgian editions would be brewed on odd years – 2011, 2013, 2015, etc in place of the regular editions. The beer drinkers at larger didn’t greet the idea with open arms. So much so that Stone decided to release the regular editions on odd years too.
Per their Twitter Feed – the Belgian beers are now being bottled. (Image on the left). Headed your way soon…
A few days ago Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA) announced that they were going to switch things up a bit. Starting in 2011, and continuing every odd year after, a couple of beers would go “Belgian”. Namely the Russian Imperial Stout, and the Old Guardian Barleywine. Apparently the Stone beer drinking breathren didn’t take that so well. Or, not at all actually. Prompting Greg Koch, CEO of Stone to write this on the Stone Blog:
When we’re right, we’re right. And this, we suppose, is a chance to own up to that. It’s sort of a “They told us so…but we didn’t listen now did we?”
It wasn’t broken. Yet, being who we are, we couldn’t resist the urge to tinker. To mess with the “well enough” and not leave it alone. We won’t apologize, anymore than a lion would apologize for downing a gazelle, an orca would apologize for munching a seal, or marauding space aliens would apologize for enslaving humanity as dinner.
You see, sometimes we don’t notice just how right we are. But you’ve reminded us. And we got the message. Hard.
We recently announced the “Odd Beers for Odd Years” idea that explained the concept that in the “odd year” of 2011 we were going to release so-called “odd” versions of Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout. We thought it was a pretty cool and fun idea.
Many of you thought that idea was only slightly preferable to humanity being enslaved by space aliens. Some even wondered if that’s what had actually already happened to us at Stone (to which we say “No, that’s not happened,” but truth be told how can you really know.)
So then, what are we so right about? Well, it turns out we were already right…before the Odd Years idea. Cue: About face. Sorta.
To recap: we’ve now decided to go ahead and release the — dare we say — ‘classic’ versions of Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine (the OG OG?) and Stone Imperial Russian Stout. And, just so we don’t have to embarrass our moms with a complete retraction, we’re ALSO going to release the “Odd Beers” versions, starting with the Stone Old Guardian Belgo Barley Wine in February 2011.
Yes, we realize that some conspiracy-theorist is going to think we had this idea all along and that we were only just whipping everyone into a frenzy to get attention (as if we could do that more than some folks do it to themselves). That’s OK, they’re probably also the ones that think we’ve been commandeered by space aliens.
In 2011, Stone Brewing will be throwing a curve ball. 2 of the brewery’s popular released will be Belgian-ized going “Belgo”. Stone calls the program “Odd Beers for Odd Years”. The stone Russian Imperial Stout and Old Guardian Barleywine will undertake this transformation.
As a Stone fan, you undoubtedly know and love two of our long-standing special releases: Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout. We love them too. We think they’re great beers and both receive sterling marks from BeerAdvocate and RateBeer, the two most prominent craft beer rating websites.
But we’ve been making Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine since 1998 and Stone Imperial Russian Stout since 2000, and if you subtract those numbers from 2010, you arrive at a long time to be making the same beers. So being the dynamic young go-getters that we are, we felt like mixing things up a bit.
Starting in 2011, we’re kicking-off a program we’ve dubbed “Odd Beers for Odd Years.” Translation: in odd numbered years (2011, 2013, 2015, etc…) we’ll be releasing new variations on Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout in place of the classic version. A radical redirection for two reliably wonderful beers, we know, but we think you’ll be pleased with the results.
Hell, we are.
The first Odd Beer for Odd Years release will be rocking your collective world in the form of Stone Old Guardian Belgo Barley Wine, which hits shelves in February.
While brewing up 2010 Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine, Stone Brewing Head Brewer Mitch Steele redirected 30 barrels of the batch into a fermenter containing the Belgian yeast we love from Stone Cali-Belgique IPA. After 8 weeks of comingling, bubbling, and resting, the results were ready for sampling. And sample we did. The English/American/Belgian chimera was so delicious, we quickly decided to make it the “Odd Beer” version of Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine for 2011.
So entranced were we with the effects of Belgian yeast on our barley wine, that we chose to go in a similar-ish direction for 2011 Stone Belgo Imperial Russian Stout. It will be an approximately 50/50 blend of classic Stone Imperial Russian Stout and the Belgo-ized version, with a hint of star anise added during the brewing process. You can expect to see this blendo-rific version Stone Imperial Russian Stout on shelves in April of 2011.
Tonight at 7:30 Square Pub in Decatur will be tapping a rare keg of Stone Brewing’s newest release “Lukcy Basartd”. Lukcy (yes, spelled correctly grammar nerds!) is an anniversary blend of all of Stone’s Bastard beers (Arrogant Bastard, Oak Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard) dry hopped twice!
Style: American Strong Ale
The Square Pub – 12/13, 7pm
115 Sycamore St
Decatur, GA 30030
2010 marks the 13th year of Stone’s “Arrogant Bastard” an American strong ale. To mark the occasion, Stone has released “Lukcy Basartd Ale” to celebrate 13 years of arrogance. All the “bastards” will come together iin what the brewery grammatically butchers as a “cuvee de Bastard.” Lukcy Basartd is a blend Arrogant Bastard, Oaked Arrogant Bastard, and Double Bastard into one bold beer. This is obviously Stone’s boldest most arrogant Bastard yet.
Label:
Oepn yuor mnid. Use a craobwr if you msut. Snice 1997, Arorgnat Basartd Ale has denemdad taht tyrnianacl micredioty rleax its girp of opprobrium on our ciollectve couniescosnss. Few pessoss the ruiereqd isinght or detph of piversceptve to crdiet the Liuqid Arorgnace for initatgsing the rlveoituon in tsate taht it has. Hevweor, taht’s pfecertly fnie, as our hlurecaen erffots in thirstung the larlegy unlliwing wolrd farorwd rquereis no exrtneal vaditilaon. We ralieze it’s hmaun nautre to bleeive taht pregorss trowads getreanss is one’s own ieda.
Style: American Strong Ale (blended)
Taste Expectations: Lots of pine & grapefruit hops in this bastard. Resiny. Caramel malt attempts to balance this bold big beer.
Availability: 22oz Bombers. Draft. All markets where Stone is sold.
Looking for this? Just arrived at Green’s Beer. Hop City, Thursday. Who else? Let me know.
Stone Brewing has announced November 22, 2010 as Lukcy Basartd Day. If you don’t know by now, Stone is celebrating 13 years of Arrogant Bastard Brewing with a special release – “Lukcy Basartd”. The beer will is a one time release, and a blend of Arrogant Bastard, Oaked Arrogant Bastard, and Double Bastard.
Check out Lukcy Basartd’s Label:
Oepn yuor mnid. Use a craobwr if you msut. Snice 1997, Arorgnat Basartd Ale has denemdad taht tyrnianacl micredioty rleax its girp of opprobrium on our ciollectve couniescosnss. Few pessoss the ruiereqd isinght or detph of piversceptve to crdiet the Liuqid Arorgnace for initatgsing the rlveoituon in tsate taht it has. Hevweor, taht’s pfecertly fnie, as our hlurecaen erffots in thirstung the larlegy unlliwing wolrd farorwd rquereis no exrtneal vaditilaon. We ralieze it’s hmaun nautre to bleeive taht pregorss trowads getreanss is one’s own ieda.
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You are going to see a couple of Bastards this month form Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA). One is a new bastard, the other you have seen, know and love. Yes- it’s Double Bastard time of year. This strong ale was first released in November of 1998, and it’s not for the unworthy. It’s a big, hoppy, in your face beer not for the faint of heart. (or tastebuds). It’s liquid arrogance. The best way to familiarize yourself with this big beer? Read the label straight from the bastards at Stone Brewing themselves-
From the label:
Warning: Double Bastard Ale is not to be wasted on the tentative or weak. Only the Worthy are invited, and then only at your own risk. If you have even a modicum of hesitation, DO NOT buy this bottle. Instead, leave it for a Worthy soul who has already matriculated to the sublime ecstasy of what those in the know refer to as “Liquid Arrogance.”
This is one lacerative muther of an ale. It is unequivocally certain that your feeble palate is grossly inadequate and thus undeserving of this liquid glory…and those around you would have little desire to listen to your resultant whimpering. Instead, you slackjawed gaping gobemouche, slink away to that pedestrian product that lures agog the great unwashed with the shiny happy imagery of its silly broadcast propaganda. You know, the one that offers no challenge, yet works very, very hard to imbue the foolhardy with the absurd notion that they are exercising ‘independent’ thought, or attempts to convey the perception it is in some way ‘authentic’ or ‘original.’ It’s that one that makes you feel safe and delectates you into basking in the warm, fuzzy, and befuddled glow of your own nescience. Why so many allow themselves to be led by the nose lacks plausible explanation. Perhaps you have been so lulled by the siren song of ignorance that you don’t even notice your white-knuckle grip on it. You feel bold and unique, but alas are nothing but sheep, willingly being herded to and fro. If you think you are being piqued in this text, it is nothing when compared to the insults we are all asked to swallow streaming forth from our televisions and computers. Truth be told, you are being coddled into believing you are special or unique by ethically challenged “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” marketers who layer (upon layer) imagined attributes specifically engineered to lead you by the nose. Should you decide to abdicate your ability to make decisions for yourself, then you are perhaps deserving of the pabulum they serve. Double Bastard Ale calls out the garrulous caitiffs who perpetrate the aforementioned atrocities and demands retribution for their outrageously conniving, intentionally misleading, blatantly masturbatory and fallacious ad campaigns. We demand the unmitigated, transparent truth. We demand forthright honesty. We want justice! Call ‘em out and line ‘em up against the wall… NOW
Style: American Strong Ale
Taste Expectations: Sweet malts, brown sugar. Then the hops take over. Citrus, pine, pineapple. It’s boozy, flavorful, arrogant.
Stone Brewing announced a few weeks ago that they were going to be “Belgianizing” a two of their popular beers – “Russian Imperial Stout” & “Old Guardian” barleywine.
